Figwort Flower

Unusual for me to post a flower without a bug on it.

The figwort plant that I was in the habit of photographing tweedy weevils on has disappeared. I was delighted to find another not too far away. No sign of any weevils but there was a mullein moth caterpillar on it. The flowers are pollinated by wasps. It gets the scientific name Scrofularia from scrofula, a form of tuberculosis of the neck that the plant was used to treat. The name figwort arose because the plant was also used to treat piles or 'figs'.